Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:46 pm
Do you have to sit through a timeshare promo?
If you know ahead of time, avoid it.
This is a cautionary tale for anyone considering a coupon offer at a time-share resort. After your night in a king-size bed and a sumptuous breakfast, you’ll be dealing with a series of used-car salesman with luxury accommodations. After a half-hour of politely listening to the pitch (“After an initial $3000 fee, you get 30-60% discounts . . . “), your mind will begin to wander (“. . . on thousands of hotels!”).
To keep from losing my mind, I begin to take notes, a strategy I learned during years of teacher inservice. Of course, back then I used those notes to write newspaper columns to pillory the inservicers. For now, Time-Share Man sees I’m writing down stuff and turns his attention to my wife. Poor thing. She never spent time in a faculty meeting so she never internalized the Golden Rule of Teacher Meetings: “Never ask questions. It only prolongs the agony, and your only reward will be another shovelful of s**t.”
After an hour, I want to ask if we can just pay for the breakfast and call it a day. If only it were that simple. You see, we are staying in an EXCLUSIVE ALL-INCLUSIVE HOTEL. Comes with a flush toilet, towels and a bathroom with a shower head that doesn’t spray all over the place and soak the roll of toilet paper.
After TWO hours, I’ve got two questions:
1. What part of NO are you confused with?
2. How soon until wheels-up at the airport?
What kind of school do time-share promoters attend that thinks badgering an open-minded → skeptical → hostile audience is an acceptable strategy? So help me, we sat for THREE hours. Well, actually I had stood up for one minute of the three hours during a spiel of one of the FIVE arm-twisters who point-blank told me to sit down. He also reminded me after I refused to play his game anymore that unless I began answering questions that our coupon would be cancelled. A gain, how long until wheels-up to escape this temporal hell?
Evidently, their only option at some point is to ruin the entire vacation for the wouldn’t-be clients. Mission accomplished. At this point, I wish I had never come. Now I understand why AM radio runs so many ads about canceling time-share contracts.
